boy they were on board. ♪ breaking news, a powerful storm system rips through the south overnight, spawning several tornadoes and knocking out power to thousands. this morning, that threat is far from over. >> standoff. police in alabama, locked in tense negotiations right now with a man who burst on to a school bus, killed the driver and grabbed a 6-year-old boy. the gunman and that child now holed up in an underground bunker. we are live at the scene. and the motive. the man behind the manti te'o hoax breaks his silence. >> i wanted to end it because after everything i have gone through i realized i just have

to move on with my life. >> so why did he do it? his answer, "today," january 30th, 2013. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> good morning, everyone. i'm savannah guthrie. weather is the story again this morning. severe storms moving east, packing heavy rain, high winds. al is tracking this for us. we'll get to him in just a moment from now. also ahead, bill gates is considered one of the great visionaries of our time. for example, take a look at what he said to tom brokaw in 1992. >> one of the big things over the next couple of years will be getting the computer on enough desktops that we'll actually communicate through what's called electronic mail and it's

surprising to me it's not happening a little faster. >> ooh, electronic mail. i think we call this e-mail. i guess he is a visionary. >> any other crazy predictions you want to make? >> it's amazing how fast technology is moving. if you go out 20 years, you'll be able to talk to the computer. it will be kind of pervasive, your walls, your white board. it will see what you're doing, be able to write on it. the next 20 years will be more amazing. also, we'll use it to do better education and put technology to use to help the poor as well. >> if you could be more specific, i'm going to call my investment guy about that. >> we'll talk to bill gates about the future of technology. also he talks about changing the world, the enormous generosity of his foundation, having given over $1 billion. we'll talk to you about that, mr. bill gates. and the super bowl, the

volkswagen ad that has a white male speaking in a jamaican accent. we asked you at home what you thought and those results were overwhelmingly one sided. after losing all four limbs in the iraq war, he is showing off his new arms after undergoing a double arm transplant. this is very rare, very complicated procedure. coming up, we'll talk to two of the doctors that performed it. we want to get right to the storm system and a threat of the tornadoes for today. al is upstairs and has all of that. >> good morning, savannah. tornado watches are stretching from mississippi all the way up into ohio and west virginia. there are numerous tornado warnings in effect right now throughout parts of tennessee and also on into parts of alabama. we are watching these systems make their way through.

here's what's going on. we've got a risk of these strong storms, tornadoes possible from mobile up to washington. warm, moist air coming up from the south, cold air coming in from the north. where those systems are clashing, that's where we've got the severe storms. as you watch this system make its way across the country into the east, it's a fast mover. you can see heavy rain falling with this and the possibility of tornadoes firing up right on through the afternoon into the evening hours. back side of the system, we've got a lot of snow. rainfall, we've got flood watches in effect right now for much of the northeast. anywhere from two to five inches of rain, stretching from alabama, all the way on up into the northeast. and behind the system, we've got snow to talk about. some area s picking up six to nine inches of snow with this system alone. another system coming in, in a couple of days that, will add to this snow. right now the northeast under

the gun for tornadoes. >> mr. bill gates has relinquished your chair. come on down. nbc's tom costello is in washington, d.c. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this has been a week of strange weather. normally 44 degrees as ahigh here in d.c. this time of year. an ice storm monday, today it's supposed to get up to 74 and a lot of the country has been enjoying this short reprieve from ice and snow. would you believe this is january in chicago? shorts, t-shirts and no shirts. >> into january, in the heat of winter, be out here running without a shirt, it's great. >> reporter: in fact, it was warmer in the windy city than it was in phoenix tuesday. chicago broke a 99-year record for this date, in the low 60s. >> it's a little weird, but nice. >> reporter: for the east in washington, it was even warmer.

the white house, capitol and national mall all basking under 70-degree skies. >> it's one amazingly nice, yummy day out here. >> reporter: across a large section of the country, the mercury is riding the roller coaster this week from the low double digits to the high 60s, then back to the 20s and 30s by the weekend. this isn't normal. two years ago, we got clobbered here in d.c. d.c., the midatlantic, the northeast, all getting hit very hard. schools are closed, airlines are canceling flights. and a year ago, chicago was digging out. so, what's going on this year? >> essentially right now what's going on, big, big rise in the jet stream. basically you're getting this gulf of mexico air as far north as lower michigan. >> reporter: the bad news, the jet stream is moving south and with it old man winter is knocking. green bay is going from the 50s to six inches of snow today. chicago, expected to drop back to 17 by thursday. and while the midatlantic may

enjoy one last day in the 70s -- >> i woke up this morning and the birds were singing outside, sun was streaming through my window and it was very confusing. >> reporter: much of the east coast will be back in the deep freeze by friday. it was nice while it lasted. so here in d.c., they tell us we'll be back in the 30s by thursday, in the 20s with a windchill in the 20s over the wind. not a bad excuse if you need to stay inside and watch the big game on sunday. matt, back to you. >> tom costello in washington. thank you very much. sav yanna savannah? after a gunman burst on to a school bus in alabama, shot the driver and kidnapped a 6-year-old boy. samuel king from nbc affiliate ffa is standing by. what is going on at this hour to get this boy to safety? >> reporter: good morning, savannah. this is a very delicate situation, according to law enforcement. what you see behind me is a

command post set up at a church, in the parking lot of a church. that is not the scene. the scene is behind the church, up a hill to where some people live and the man who is holding this young boy hostage apparently has some sort of bunker. now the man, we're told by police and witnesses, a combination of both this morning, is that the man went on to a school bus about 3:30 central time yesterday afternoon, went on the bus, demanded that two children come with him. the bus driver tried to resist. she actually tried to go in reverse, according to witnesses, to get away from this man. one child, we're told, actually fainted and he was able to get -- capture that child. he also shot the bus driver multiple times. the people who live in this area heard what was going on. they scrambled to try to see what was going on, make sure their families were safe and also try to catch the man, chase after him and also take care of the children, who might have been involved.

>> my neighbor got on the school bus shortly after it stopped and let off a couple of kids. got on the school bus and demanded two children. he was only able to get ahold of one. and then i believe he shot the bus driver three times and then retreated back into his -- on his land and is now hidden in his homemade bomb shelter. >> and some of the neighbors in this area were evacuated. others were told to shelter in place. we've been here at this point ever since. we've moved away from the sort of immediacy of this situation, making sure the children are safe, everyone is safe except for the young boy who has been captured. we're told his condition right now is as good as can be expected. we're still out here, watching this and hope this comes to a solution soon. >> thank you very much. apparently this man did not know the boy. that's the early indication we're getting. natalie is at the news desk

with the other headlines this morning. good morning. >> good morning, matt and savannah. good morning, everyone. tragic new details from brazil. the death toll from this weekend's nightclub fire has now risen to 234. the band performing that night, knowingly purchased and shot off flares intended for outdoor use only. this, according to local police. outdoor flares cos $1 each. indoor flares carry a $35 price tag. other contributing causes to the blaze, including flammable toxic foam, soundproofing on the ceiling and a single exit to the large club did not break any brazilian laws. this, as new haunting video emerges, showing the aftermath inside the club. senate overwhelmingly confirmed massachusetts senator john kerry tuesday to succeed hillary clinton as secretary of state. he submitted his letter of resignation as senator effective friday. the governor of massachusetts will name an interim senator to fill kerry's seat until a

special election in june. a senate hearing today on the issue of gun violence. officials from the national rifle association are set to face off with advocates for weapon control, including astronaut mark kelly, the husband of wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords. superstorm sandy, help is on the way across the northeast. the president has signed into law a $50 billion measure to allocate funding for the recovery effort. it took congress three months to give the bill the green light. how did nick wallenda cross the road? on a wire about 250 feet suspended above it. here is the bird's-eye view. if that doesn't make you nauseous, taken from a camera hooked to his balancing pole. some 12,000 people came out to watch the death-defying stunt. no tether, no net, matt, savannah and al. pretty scary stuff. >> would he have had to have a camera on the other side of the pole to make that balanced ? >> i was wondering about that.

>> natalie, thank you very much. you're back with the local forecast in. >> that's right. first we want to tell you about this cold air that's coming. we records broken up and down the east coast and in the midsection of the country. chicago up to 63 and 81 in new orleans and lorado 94, but, today, big changes. right now we're looking at 74 for a high in charlotte with d.c. 70 and cleveland will see a high of 63. behind that system, look at bismarck 5 below and 14 in minneapolis and omaha at 21 and that cold air will make its way south and east over the next 48 hours. your local forecast in just a moment, but first this message.

good morning some of that warmth from yesterday has been held in overnight. temperatures climbing into the 60s and much of virginia closer to washington, too, now near 60 degrees. big area for severe risk. all that area in yellow includes virginia, the district, the west. a squall line that may trigger damaging winds and heavy rain and that's your latest weather. savannah? >> all right, al. stepping down as secretary of sta state, she sat down with andrea mitchell. >> hillary clinton told me it's hard for her to imagine waking up next week with no place to go

after four years and almost a million miles, circling the globe. hillary clinton said the traditional way of doing diplomacy was not good enough for the crisis the obama team inherited. >> we had an overwhelm iing imperative to restore american leadership. it was in question and it was, in part, because of political decisions that had been made prior to the obama administration, but also because of the economic crisis. >> reporter: from the war on terror to the arab spring, they faced upheavals around the world. what went wrong? >> benghazi went wrong. that was a terrible example of trying to get the right balance between being in a threatening place or not being there. >> reporter: but in retrospect, shouldn't a cable warning of a security threat from an ambassador in a conflict zone, shouldn't that get the highest possible attention immediately? >> well, that's what we're hoping to make sure does happen in the future. >> reporter: she made progress, though fragile, on her lifelong

commitment for equal rights for women and girls. >> i worry about extremist groups, fanatics who shoot, you know, teenage girls because they want to go to school. >> reporter: but work for the nonstop clinton came to a halt when she fell, suffered a concussion, blood clot and special eyeglasses. will her health stop her from running for president again? >> i'm healthy enough and i'll be fully recovered to choose whatever i choose to do but i don't have any decisions made. >> reporter: are you convinced that that fall was caused by dehydration? have your doctors ruled out any vascular event? >> it was a virus. i had a vicious viral attack that caused all of the unpleasant things that viruses can cause. >> reporter: in 2011 when savannah asked her about running again -- >> will you run for president in 2016? >> no. no. you know, savannah, i'm very

privileged to have had the opportunities to serve my country and i'm really old fashioned. i feel like i've made my contribution. >> reporter: this time, clinton was not closing the door. do you feel that joe biden, as the vice president, has the right of first refusal, as it were, within in the party? or is it an open competition if you decide to run? >> american politics is always an open competition, but i have no -- you know, i have no position on any of this. i have no opinion about it. i'm still secretary of state. i can't really engage in politics. and for the foreseeable future, i don't think that i will be at all political. >> today, clinton has a farewell lunch at the white house. he could have to eventually choose between both clinton and biden if they choose to run for the presidency. for now she plans to work on the clinton foundation and get some extra sleep. something you can relate to,

savannah. >> we'll continue to ask her the question and i guess she'll continue to dodge for the moment. thank you so much. >> you bet. >> now here's matt. imagine if you had morme money than just about everybody else in the world, once you got past homes, shopping, cars, doing nice things for your family and your children, what would you do next? microsoft founder bill gates has given it away. donating billions of dollars in an effort to fix what he sees as the biggest problems facing humanity. today he is out with his annual update on the foundation's progress. mr. gates, as i said, it's great to have you here. good morning. >> good morning. >> often times we use millions and billions and they almost lose their meaning. we're talking about your foundation, which has now given away more than $26 billion over the last 18 years. when you look at the way you've spent the money, what makes you the most proud? >> it's amazing how we improved health for the poorest children in the world.

in 1990, over 12 million children a year died. now that's down to about 6.9 million. and a lot of that is the vaccine effort that our foundation and governments got behind. we can do more. >> talk about an example of that. last year, based on the work of your foundation in india, a country of 1.2 billion people, 27 million live births a year, there was not one case, new case of polio reported for the first time ever. was that simply a money thing? was that going in and throwing money at a problem or does it take a lot more than that? >> well, we're down to three countries with polio. so, getting india done was a huge milestone. it's going to take a lot of money to finish it, about 6 billion more. but we're going to have to use satellite maps. we're going to have to use little gps trackers to make sure the vaccine teams go where they're supposed to. a lot of technology. a lot of political will, meeting

with leaders and making sure they prioritize this. but we want to make this the second disease ever eradicated. >> reading a letter to people who follow your foundation, often times it's not just about putting money on a problem. ethiopia would be a good example. you have to fix the organizat n organizational structure or else you give money and it's used inefficie inefficiently. >> that's right. you have to talk to the leaders, help them get the system set up, to get medicines out to the rural parts of the country. and seeing how to do that has made a very interesting mark. we've got a lot of people in these countries that come up with solutions. no, it's not check writing. >> there are so many great causes out there. and you cannot help everyone. when you go to bed at night, do you -- are you overwhelmed by the idea that you can't help

everyone? and does that trump the feeling of the pride you have in the people you have helped? >> no, because we're seeing so much progress. we pick two things to focus on, helping the poorest in the world, often with health and nutrition, and taking the education system in this country and making it an engine of opportunity by reducing the dropout rate, helping teachers get better, using technology. we just dive into those and do the best we can. >> you can help in huge way with his the amount of money that you have amassed. we've heard of the generosity of so many other people like warren buffett and our own mayor, michael bloomberg, and others who don't get recognition. the average person out there is generous, i think. they want to be philanthropic but can't give a lot. if someone out there can afford to give $10 to any cause, where would you want them to send it? >> there are a lot of wonderful choices. there's one called donors choose

where teachers put up projects and those are for small amounts of money. you go to that website you can help fund a thing that a teacher is trying to do with their class. can you go to save the children. they help mothers have safe births. you can go to the polio vaccination website t takes donations of any size. you can be sure that these organizations will put your money to good use. >> we talk a lot about the progress that you are achieving here. can you compare for me, though, the feeling you get today from being able to give away millions and billions of dollars to the feeling you had as a young man, being able to make your first million dollars? there's no crime in looking back and saying, boy, that was fun. compare the feelings for me. >> what you really feel is what you achieved. if a piece of software gets out there and lots of people love it. let's them get their work done in better ways, that's exciting.

when polio finally gets eradicated some time in the next six years, that will feel extremely good. it's when you can map that money into making the world a better place. i love this work as much as i loved my work in software. >> and just help me out at home in my last question here. you've got three kids, about 13, 16, 11. those ages. >> yep. >> i have kids. what age do your kids get cell phones? >> we've chosen in our family it's 13 when you get a phone. you're still a little bit limited. they come home, all the other kids have it. i'm the only one without it. it's so embarrassing. >> you just bought me two years. you realize that, right? do you have your kids passwords for e-mail and things like that? do you and melinda keep the passwords? >> not the 16-year-old's. it's a very tricky issue for parents now. >> bill gates, as i said, congratulations on the

accomplishments of your foundation. it's always nice to have you here in new york. thanks for joining us. it's 7:22. for more on the bill and melinda gates foundation, go to our website. a commercial you'll be talking about long after the big game. and also ahead, the man who admits to master minding that hoax against manti te'o. first this is "today" on nbc.

still ahead, an iraq war veteran lost all four limbs, proudly shows off his new arms. we'll talk to the doctors who performed the rare double transpla transplant. >> after your local news. for minor digestive issues. exactly, it's also important for my overall well being because it helps regulate my digestive system. and when you feel good on the inside,

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the distance you can see they're trying to pull that fire truck on to a tow truck right now. again, the accident happened right here near 495 and 50. you can tell us how things are looking, danellea. >> huge delays in both directions. melissa is here on the beltway at 50. significant delays on the inner loop, as well as the outer loop. the earlier crash there. five vehicles headed southbound at 410. it's over an eight-mile bac

good morning, mostly cloudy now and around 60 degrees around the metro area. after sunset, some strong storms moving in 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. some could produce heavy rain and gusting winds and then turning windy and cold tomorrow. 40s in the morning and 30s late

afternoon and 20s by dawn friday. cold into the weekend with scattered flurries. aaron? >> thank you, tom. we will be keeping an eye on the serious crash causing some delays on the beltway at 50.

daddy, can you play princess with me? >> i would love to, but the guys are outside waiting for me. >> got some doritos. >> what's the holdup? >> pretty cute. that's one of the commercials that advertisers hope will catch your attention on super bowl sunday. >> if i had a quarter for every time i dressed up -- >> that's a different segment all together. we'll have some previews coming up. this is wednesday, january 30th, 2013.

i'm savannah guthrie, along with matt lauer. volkswagen commercial, in it a white man speaks in a jamaican accent. some people thought that crossed the line. "today's" professionals will weigh in on that. and we'll reveal the results of our today.com poll. do you think it went too far? >> you know, donny deutsch is responsible for that ad. we'll ask him about that. an iraq war veteran who lost all four limbs recently underwent a double arm transplant. we'll speak with the doctors involved. and liza minnelli talks about "cabaret" 40 years later. ronaiah tuiasosopo sat down with dr. phil for an interview airing on his show thursday and friday of this week. so what was the motive behind it

all? here is nbc's mike taibbi. >> reporter: ronaiah tuiasosopo told dr. phil mcgraw that as manti te'o became more famous, the online hoax he started two years earlier was sure to blow up and not hurt te'o, but him. >> i wanted to end t after everything i had gone through, i realized i had to move on with my life and had to get, you know, the real me, ronaiah -- i had to just start living and let this go. >> reporter: mcgraw says at the request of tuiasosopo's psychiatrist, he spent hours with the young california man and his parents. >> ronaiah had a number of life experiences that damaged this young man in some very serious ways. >> reporter: they all watched katie couric's interview with te'o and discussed in detail what te'o called his humiliation, falling in love

with a picture of stranger, used without permission, and accompanied by a hoaxer's voice. so persuasive to te'o that even after the heisman runner-up guessed he had been had, he talked about his girlfriend, lennay kekua, as if she were real. >> i will never forget when my girlfriend -- >> absolutely, unequivocally, no. >> the big question, why? why did he keep it going not for months but years, knowing it would likely become public to everyone's regret. >> here we have a young man who fell deeply, romantically in love. >> did you say that? >> i asked him straight up, was this a romantic relationship with you? and he says yes. i said, are you then, therefore, gay? and he said, well, when you put it that way, yes. and then he caught himself and said, i am confused.

>> reporter: te'o believed the voice on the line was his lennay. >> i love you so much, hon. sweet girl. >> doesn't that sound like a girl? >> reporter: but tuiasosopo insists that the voice was his and the relationship, both sides around a totally fake core. >> there was something where they would break up. >> reporter: his life, like te'o's life, now linked by a cruel hoax. for "today," mike taibbi. >> i think in a nutshell he puts it when he says he's confused. >> yeah. >> this guy is confused. and the weather now from al. >> we have some kids from guardian ainngel school in lowe manhattan. you're a good-looking group.

i like that. ca catholic schools raising the stanstandard. let's check it out and see what we have going on. show you, we have lake effect. the great lakes have no ice on them. strong winds out of the west, northwest. this will dump snow squalls for the next 72 hours. generally about three to six inches, but from traverse city down to kalamazoo could get a foot and a half of snow from erie and syracuse and watertown as you get to the tug hill plateau. that's what's going on around the country. >> good morning, a risk of some strong storms later today in this yellow zone that covers all of maryland, virginia and the district. coming from that line of storms from the west and we have damaging winds that cause power outages and heavy downpours, as well. that is between 7:00 and 11:00 p.m. this evening. clearing out after midnight,

windy and colder tomorrow. cold pattern into the weekend and could get flurries friday morning and, again, maybe saturday night and again on monday. a little bit >> and that's your latest weather. savannah? >> al, thanks. incredible story of survival and a medical miracle. a wounded iraq war veteran received a rare double arm transplant. we'll talk to two of the doctors who performed it. first, nbc's pentagon correspondent, jim milkuloklasz has the story. >> modern medicine, young man's coverage and determination to overcome an unimaginable adversity. brendan marrocco sat before a group of reporters. >> i never accepted the fact that i didn't have arms. now that i have them again it's almost as if it never happened. >> reporter: as a soldier in

iraq he lost both his arms and legs to a roadside bomb, first quadruple amputee in the u.s. military. after four years of therapy, he mastered his artificial limbs, all four of them. but listen to him as he comes to grips with the loss of one, but definitely not the other. >> i hated not having arms. i was all right with not having legs. not having arms takes so much away from you out of even your personality. >> reporter: last december, a team of doctors at johns hop kins, working 13 hours straight, transplanted two arms from a deceased anonymous donor. to reduce the threat of rejecti rejection, the donor's bone marrow was also transplanted. while the motion is limited and he still has no feeling in his fingers, his progress so far seems miraculous. scratching his nose is now second nature. the first time he actually moved his arms was a shocker. >> one of my friends was just like freaking out. he's like, did you do that on

purpose? >> reporter: marrocco's goal is to drive his car and compete again in sports. with his unbridled spirit and deep determination, his doctors have no doubts. >> i feel like i'm getting a second chance to start over after i got hurt. >> reporter: doctors predict it could take as long as three years before those nerves fully regenerate and before marrocco gains maximum use of his arms. being in that room with him yesterday, you could just feel all his energy and enthusiasm. so i'm guessing he's probably got his own timetable, savannah. >> that, he does. jim miklaszewski, thank you. dr. andrew lee led the group of surgeons and dr. jaimie shores. already using his hands to text. we saw him scratch his nose.

is this a lot of progress for somebody who is only six weeks out of surgery? how do you expect him to develop over these next years to get back the use of these hands? >> brendan has done extremely well since the surgery and we're very happy with his progress. the progress eventually will take time, as you already mentioned. we expect that he will first regain elbow motion in his transplanted right arm and then wrist and eventually fingers. feelings will also gradually come back, which is the important part, with the arm function. everything, again, can easily take two to three years. >> this is a 13-hour surgery as we mentioned. 16 surgeons. it's incredibly complicated. they had to connect plates and screws, muscles and tendons, veins and arteries, nerves and finally skin. can you, dr. shores even put into words what an incredibly complex procedure this is? >> well, it's a procedure that all of us rehearsed multiple

times to try to take as much of the unknown and unexpected out of it so we could break it down into an organized fashion. the way we do that is by surrounding ourselves with excellent surgeons who have a great interest, who are already very good at what they do. then we all put our heads together and come up with what we think is the best possible plan. we practice it over and over. when the real event shows up, everything went just like we rehearsed it. so, we were very happy with the results. >> dr. lee, so many people were impressed with this young man yesterday. he comes across as upbeat, funny, positive. you, yourself, i think called him stubborn in a good way. how much does it make a difference that the patient is able to be so upbeat and so involved in his recovery? >> well, we think that's extremely important and that's why we selected brendan as one of the candidates. he is a very determined person who has endured a lot and, actually deserving. he has sacrificed so much for our country.

but mostly it's his motivation for hard work and his optimism that made him such an ideal candidate for our operation. >> well, we are so happy to see it going so well so far. hope you'll keep in touch with us. dr. w.p. andrew lee and dr. jaimie shores, thank you and congratulations to you as well. >> thank you, savannah. a first look at the commercials you'll see on super bowl sunday right after this. [ kitt ] you know what's impressive? a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪

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all right. we're back now at 7:44 with one of the reasons a lot of people watch the super bowl, the commercials. an average 30-second spot going for about $3.8 million this year. advertisers have a lot on the line. matt miller is here with a sneak peek, president and ceo of independent associate producers. good to have you here this year. >> good to be here. >> the audience will get to choose the ending of some commercial commercials. >> it's all about the engagement all together. we're teasing spots, right? we're looking at people using a second screen and actually interacting with spots. and we're hoping that they're going to pass them on. in fact, numbers show they will. 35% looking at super bowl ads before the super bowl. 40% sharing them. so we have these numbers that show a big push towards engagement. >> let's talk about that engagement, that interactive quality. first commercial we'll show is

for coke. the viewer has a choice. take a look. ♪ ♪ >> all right. the idea is the viewer is going to get to choose who gets to the bottle of coke first miechlt money is on the show girls. why do you like this ad? >> again, it brings in gamification. not ohm are you watching the ad but you're going to interact. people have a second or third screen in front of them while you're watching the game. they're going to pick it. my daughters picked the show

girls, too. >> doritos always get a lot of buzz for their commercials. let's take at this year's spot and tell me why you like it. >> daddy, can you play princess with me? >> i would love to but the guys are outside waiting for me. >> got doritos. >> what is the holdup? >> go, neil. >> is that my wedding dress? >> could be. >> so, kids and humor. >> it's seven years that doritos have been doing commercials at super bowl t jumped the shark for a while because professionals actually got into the gag. this ones one that a student did win. it's easy, right? it's basically a sitcom. it's not a real ad but sitcom brought to you by doritos. they're fun, goofy and work well in a big room with a lot of

viewers. >> we have talked about go daddy commercial the past few years. let's look at their entry. >> joe, when are you ever going to put your idea online? >> relax. >> how do you know no one else has thought of it? >> because they haven't, kelly. >> it's totally original. >> one in a gazillion. >> other really? >> really? >> it's idiot proof. >> thank goodness i put it online first. >> more champagne? >> more, sky waitress. >> i don't know why, but i love that commercial. >> great punch line. go daddy, danica patrick for all these years. she has appeared in more super bowl ads than anyone, 12 ads over the last nine years. they've brought it to a new level. they always did this in-house. it was just about her. they brought in deutsch, the agency, so you understand what go daddy is about a bit. we didn't really know what it

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i loved that movie. mid 40s going up where? >> in the 50s and we get knocked back down again tomorrow. >> what's with you? we were trying to enjoy the day. >> chicago, 63 yesterday. by friday it's going to be 14. ha! >> it is nice out here. >> it is. in case the weather man doesn't have an exciting forecast. >> that's true. new website lets you put up six seconds of video at a time. do you know how i like to think of it? >> what do you think of it as? >> instagram but with video. >> wow! >> i heard you say this. do we really need this? we will ask the professionals. also, natalie and i are hitting the road. we'll be in the respective super bowl cities. i'm going to be in san francisco. natalie will be in baltimore.

we're going to have our field trip, our friday field trip. get ready for super bowl. >> like a pep rally. >> that's right, leading the team. >> trash talking. >> oh, yeah. natalie's going down. >> the best person wins. let's go in to the aforementioned natalie morales. >> mark my words, al will be dressed as a big raven monday morning. good morning, everyone. in the news this morning, at least one death has been blamed on severe storms that are on the move this morning, through the southern and central parts of the country. a man was killed by a fallen tree in nashville, tennessee. tornado watches were in effect from mississippi to ohio and west virginia. and the storms threatened to dump as much as five inches of rain as they moved east with snow piling up right behind. an overnight standoff in southern alabama is ongoing this morning after a man boarded a school bus tuesday, fatally shot the driver and escaped with a 6-year-old boy. the gunman is holding the child in a nearby homemade bunker.

a police s.w.a.t. team and negotiators are on the scene. u.s. regulators are investigating whether boeing knew about battery problems on 787 dreamliners months before the problem grounded planes worldwide. they replaced ten of the batteries because of performance problems and told boeing about the swap. boeing in japan said it would not comment while a federal investigation is under way. as she finishes her final week, secretary of state hillary clinton is leaving her options for the future wide open. she told nbc's andrea mitchell that her recent health problems will not be a factor in deciding whether she will run again for president. >> i'm healthy enough and my stamina is great enough. and i'll be fully recovered to do whatever i choose to do. but i don't have any decisions made. >> when asked if vice president joe biden should get first shot

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no, it was not co-star ann bancroft's leg that appeared on the dustin hoffman film "the graduate." linda gray is fessing up she was the leg double and earned just $25 for the shoot when she was just an unknown, aspiring actress. viral prankster is at it again, telling unsuspected victims that they have a be. on them and enjoying their reactions. take a look. >> you've got a be. on you. [ bleep ]. >> you have a bee. you have a be. on your back. it's in your hair. there it is. you got a bee on you. right there. >> atwood pulled the prank on a college campus where most of those stung by the bee were more amused than angry. let's go back outside to al with a check of the weather. >> he's taking a real risk. >> i've seen that one done before. >> all right. thanks so much.

talking about "cabaret" and the cast, an original poster from the movie. you got joel grey's signature on that. >> i just need the other three. >> maybe they'll sign that for you. thanks so much. let's check out your weather, see what's going on. pick city of the day happens to be albany, georgia, nbc day al, georgia. nbc 10. severe storms developing there. 77 for a high today. we do have a risk of strong storms, tornado watches from mississippi all the way up into ohio and west virginia until later this morning and on to the afternoon. wet weather moves into the pacific northwest and we're also looking at rain here in the northeast. snow in the great lakes and look for snow showers in the central rockies and temperatures looking pretty cold as you get through the plains. bismarck today, a high of 5 below. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning, i'm storm team 4 meteorologist tom kieran.

a storm line with a history of damagen winds is moving into kentucky, tennessee and moving into this yellow risk zone, we're right in the middle of this. arriving here later today, perhaps after sunset and into this evening maybe with some damaging winds, as well as some scattered power outages and brief, heavy downpours and before then, we will soar into the 70s. much colder tomorrow with gusty winds and cold into >> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thanks. coming up next, professionals attack today's big talkers. and the cast of "cabaret" reunite live in our studio, 40 years later. big change to gatorade, thanks in part to a young girl who spoke out. we'll have all that and more, next. bright students are getting lost in the shuffle. and administration's work gets more complex every year. when you look at these issues, do you see problems or opportunities?

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>> yeah, they're the worst. >> no worries, man. everything will be all right. yeah, man. oh, don't fret. sticky bun come soon. >> hey, dave, you're from minnesota, right? >> yes, the land of 10,000 lakes, the gopher state. >> so in conclusion, things are pretty dismal. >> you know what this room means? a smile. who want to come with i? >> you got the idea, a white guy named dave from minnesota doing a jamaican accent. some feel this is offensive. in fairness, this comes from deutsch l.a. you sit out, donnie. star, do ywhat do you think? >> i like it. jamaica is from a place where people work really hard. >> the minute he started

talking, i found myself smiling. i recognize it as comedy. i think it's funny. >> first of all, serious advertise advertisers take what they do seriously. at agency deutsch l.a., research actually spoke to 150 jamaican-americans to find out. we are very sensitive. overall they thought it was celebratory. you're elevating that culture and the white culture is seen as boring i actually have a bigger issue, particularly when -- on the show yesterday when a white person comes on and says that's racist. you can say we don't like it, but we throw that word ashd a lot. that's a very charged word. >> it takes me back to carefree times, toes in the sand, waves crashing in the beach, no cares, no worries. i love the images. >> i do, too. >> we asked people online what they thought. did it cross the line? was it offensive?

93% of the people said no, it's not offensive. 7% said yes. >> i think it's a reminder that we all need to get over ourselves a little bit. >> let's move on. football. we talked about how dangerous a sport it can be on this show. we talked about, should we let our kids play football? the president weighed in, making this comment. i'm a big football fan. i have to tell you, if i had a son i would have to think long and hard before i let him play football and i think those of us who love the sport will have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to reduce some of the violence. will a comment like that help to speed the change in the sport? >> i don't think so very much. i think what's interesting in obama's point of view, socioeconomically where you are on the spectrum depends if you let your son play football. if that's your ticket to gold -- >> race does play a role. >> my brother-in-law played professional football. my other brother-in-law played for howard university.

and both my nephews played football. one decided not to do it in college. >> i wouldn't let my son play. >> my son charlie played football in junior high school. he was so bad that i was so glad he was demoted to giving kids snacks and water. i knew he was going to get block knocked off. >> would you let your son -- >> i would be really hesitant to let my son play. he's not a big kid. i'm more than happy with him in basketball and baseball. >> i've never been so happy to see a kid of mine not do well in sports. >> public safety here. i'm going to play you an audio commercial or appeal by david clarke, sheriff of milwaukee county. it was released recently. take a listen. >> i'm sheriff david clarke and i want to talk to you about something personal, your safety. it's no longer a spectator sport. i need you in the game. but are you ready? with officers laid off a and & furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. you can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the

bed or you can fight back. but are you prepared ? consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there. you have a duty to protect yourself and your family. we're partners now. can i count on you? >> i don't have a lot of time. >> it's irresponsible. >> it's irresponsible and dangerous. vigilanteism, you don't hear anything about safety. arm yourself. cops won't be there. >> he's saying take a course and learn how to use a firearm. >> politically, i'm surprised legally thaerp able to run that ad. >> i'm absolutely surprised that's legal for him to even say and it's irresponsible for him to suggest to put more guns on the streets and to frighten people. that's the only way for them to protect themselves. it really isn't. >> that's not a role of leadership. >> we'll see if we can get david clarke on the show and make that happen. professionals, thank you very much as always. up next, this is going to be fun. the cast of the movie "cabaret" together again, 40 years later in our studio, after this. pleasures can simply hurt.

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kit kat club and best director bob fossey. ♪ maybe this time i'll be lucky ♪ >> set in 1931 prewar germany against the backdrop of the rising nazi regime, performances by michael york as sally's boyfriend, marisa berenson as a wealthy germ wealthy jewish german heiress and commentary of the time. with its gritty, realistic approach that broke with the tradition of the old-style musical, "cabaret" was hailed as a groundbreaking film, provocative, risque, and wildly entertaining. liza minnelli, joel grey, marisa

berenson, michael york are here for a newly restored version of "cabaret" released on a 40-year anniversary blu-ray and dvd february 5th. when was the last time you all four were together in a room? do you get together a lot? >> we do, actually. don't we? >> when the print was first made we all had a chance to see it. and it was so gorgeous. >> we've all remained friends for years, you know. we've seen each other over the years. >> such extraordinary experience zblie w . >> i was going to say, you all went on to amazing careers. is there something about this moment in time for all of you, liza? >> well -- >> celebration of life. >> it was great fun, you know. i didn't do the play. and i did the film. they rewrote the film so that

michael and i had a great thing to do. but they sent us to germany, you know. i could hear people whispering, well, what are we going to -- how are we going to advertise it, the nifty nazi froly? no. and they left bob fossey alone. that was one of the best things they could have done. >> absolutely. >> those who aren't familiar with the film or have forgotten, you hear "cabaret" and you think of something so light and airy. in fact, there are elements of this that are very dark and very edgy. is that right, joel? >> i would say it's probably darker than it is light. >> yes. >> the entire idea of this film and this story is dark, dark. and the fact that we get a laugh or two here or there is like, you know, gold. >> and, michael, groundbreaking. you played a character who was not only in love with liza's character, sally, but had another love interest, a man. take us back to this period of

time in our country. this was rather unorthodoxed, was it not? >> it was very repressed. people didn't talk about it certainly not in the movies. this gentleman was bisexual. now, of course, it seems so harmless. but back then it was sort of a big deal. but this was groundbreaking. i think everyone would agree. bob fossey, this extraordinary man, had a vision and for the first time nobody broke into song in the middle of -- except on one occasion. it was all in the nightclub. >> so it made some sense to a lot of people, that's one thing that irritates them, characters bursting into song. they don't do that. you talk about bob fosse. liza, initially he came to you and wanted to show more of liza minnelli than -- >> we were at the waldorf and went down to get a cup of coffee. and he was provocative from the get go.

>> thank goodness. >> yes, very. >> and he said, well, what do you -- how do you feel about exposing yourself? i said, well, how do you feel about exposing yourself? we started to laugh. >> he tried to expose me. he did. >> i said i don't think it's necessary. do you? he said, well, i sort of -- i want to -- let me think about t it. and then he didn't do it, which was wonderful. >> we know who prevailed on that one. marisa, how do you think about this movie? how did it change your life? >> it changed my life completely. it was the second movie i had ever done. they didn't even know if i was an actress orgood, you

know. >> also like we were somewhere. -- breaking news on the beltway at 8:26 on this wednesday, january 30th. a live look now from chopper 4 at the serious accident on the beltway. a tractor trailer, a fire engine and an suv involved. seven people taken to the hospital. three firefighters expected to be released shortly. the cleanup could last until noon. for the latest on the traffic situation, let's go to danella sealock. >> as you're traveling, the tractor trailer accident at 50 outer loop delays are about six miles right now. if you're traveling the inner loop of the beltway, delays start at university boulevard and you're jammed all the way.

delays are about eight miles total. back over to you. >> thank you,

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they produce some damaging winds and >> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thanks. coming up next, a 16-year-old girl's mission to get an ingredient remove

modern day david and goliath story involving a 15-year-old girl from mississippi that fought one of the biggest beverage companies. >> very few of us read the labels for everything we eat or drink but that's exactly what sarah kavanagh does. when she came across an ingredient that troubled her, she decided to do something about it. when 16-year-old sarah kavanagh from hattiesburg, mississippi, reached for a gatorade after playing outside with her younger

brother, noticed an unfamiliar ingredient, brominated venlgable oil. the vegan turned to google and was surprised at what she found. >> potentially bad side effects. i don't want my family to drink it. i wouldn't want anyone else to drink it. >> reporter: bvo is a food additive. it's banned for use in foods in places like europe and japan and many have concerns about its safety. >> in animal studies, high doses of bvo clearly are harmful, whether the low doses in human foods are also harmful, we simply don't know. this chemical needs more research. >> reporter: food and drug administration says based on its review of the science, the fda has determined that bvo is safe and presents no health risks at the permitted level. still, sarah decided to challenge the company. with a letter, asking them to remove bvo from their sports drink. >> we know that you can do better than this. >> reporter: over 200,000 people signed the petition.

sarah was even invited to be a guest on "the dr. oz show." >> it's because of brave kids like sarah that have brought awareness to these issues. >> coca cola, dr. pepper and pepsi who use bvo in their products say it's safe and will continue evaluating it. but last week pepsi announced they're in the process of removing the controversial ingredient. while our products are safe, we are making a change because we know some consumers have a negative conception of bvo and gatorade. a big-time victory. >> i'm not afraid to stand up for what i believe in, what i think is right. >> reporter: for this small-town girl. now, pepsi says they've been working on an alternative ingredient for bvo for more than a year, well before sarah began her campaign. the newly formulated drink will be on shelves in a month. matt? >> thank you. sarah is with us now with dr.

ó> thank you. girl from hattiesburg, mississippi, knows the story of david and gm0goliath, doesn't ? >> definitely. >> do you feel like you're david and you defeated the giant? >> i wouldn't take it to that level. they are a very big company.qr(& it's been very empowering to know that somebody as young as i am -- you know, just one person. but backed up by like 200,000 people, we could take down a company like this. >> you were 15 at the time you start this had. >> yes. >> you read that label and saw that ingredient. you had enough curiosity in you to do your research. once you found out what it was, why did you think it was worth your time and effort to actually try to get it changed? >> i saw the side effects. it wouldn't be something that i would want to drink. i wouldn't want my family to drink. i want people to know about it. i don't want anyone to drink it. >> were you surprised that more than 200,000 people joined that petition? >> definitely. i didn't think it would get as much response as it did. it's really great to know that all those people are backing me up and they care about the ingredients and what they're

eating and drinking. >> the fda says it's safe at the proper levels. is it a big deal that pepsi backed down and took this out? >> it's a big step. to be clear, to highlight this, it's not permitted in many other countries. the fda took it off the generally recognized safe list and put it in -- >> a nebulized category. >> and it's stayed there 42 years. what was interesting and why we wa wanted to profile sarah's story for, it made a change that we couldn't do ourselves. >> in the media, we love david and goliath stories. are we making more of this than we should? was this a change that was going to happen anyway? >> ooirm proud that pepsi stepped forward and made the change. i think there was going to be a nudge to push them. i think it's true for all these soft drinks, all the products we have in front of us with the exception of the gatorade, which as you mentioned will be changing, have it in front of

us. that's the same family that we use in fire retardants, flame retardants. why would i want that in my drink, especially since it's the only reason it's there to to emulsify the artificial flavors? why take a chance if you don't have to? >> you call yourself curious and argumentative. do you have another crusade in your future? >> i'm not sure. a lot of other beverage companies use this product and a lot of people have been asking me, what are you going to do next? and give me some suggestions. i have some things in mind. i'm not really sure yet. i'm definitely ready to take this to the next level. >> something tells me you'll be back on this show. sarah, congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> doctor, always good to see you. i know you'll have more on this issue, by the way, on your show today. up next, mr. michael bolton on his struggles and his successes in the music industry. he'll be joining mitch, our audio guy, in just a couple of moments. audio guy, in just a couple of moments. first this is "today" on nbc.

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back at 8:44. two-time grammy winner michael bolton has spent more than four decades in the music business, sold 53 million albums. his biggest hit came in 1991 with his album "time, love and tenderness," remained on the charts almost four years. recently bolton found a new generation of fans with an appearance on ""saturday night live"" and his ode to captain jack sparrow. now he's opening up about the struggles behind his success in his new book "the soul of it all: my music, my life." can we start with the jack sparspar sparrow video? >> absolutely. >> i fell in love with you all over again. >> it's great to be discovered four years later. >> did that surprise you at all? and did they have to talk you into doing it? >> yes and yes. they've been doing this on

"saturday night live" for years. i'm a very big fan of their work. we met at this hotel in california and andy was sitting across from me and he said, my mother is so excited that i'm having this meeting with you. i said my daughters are going nuts because i'm meeting with you. that's how it started. i read the script. it's disgusting. i can't do t it's funny. it's too gross. i can't do t he said yeah, we thought you might think that so we'll tweak it. i thought they were too bus toy tweak it. a month passed and all of a sudden andy is e-mailing me. this script is just as gross as the last one. this went on for eight months. >> so you pulled gross off very well. i want to talk about the book. we really get the story of your whole life. we think of you as this singer of romantic pop balladses about bu that is not the person we meet early in life. you wanted to be a rock star. we hear about michael bolton, the star, for lack of a better word.

>> i can't dispute that. it's all over the first 40 pages. it was a smoky blur. i was too stoned for woodstock. but -- nice pictures right there. everybody i knew was. that was the hippie generation, the woodstock generation. i thought that was basically what you do. and in music, of course, nobody thought twice about it. but you couldn't get serious about a career or serious about anything until you removed all the distractions. and that was a big turning point in my life, is when i decided i've got a chance to make it in music and i want all this stuff out of my life. >> you did commercial jingles for a while to pay the bills? >> yes. >> do you remember any of them? ♪ be all that you can be >> that's yours? >> that's one of mine. >> that's very memorable. i think you have a future. >> pretty big one. you've got to practice. i did a lot. at one point i did a video. i was going to get something to drink and opened up a cooler and i had sung everything in there.

i had sung diet pepsi, cherry coke, dr. pepper. i had sung everything in there. and i thought, i might need to slow down. i was driving and the first record that was going to be my first hit record came out. i was driving on west side drive coming into new york and i heard one of my commercials and i said oh, this is good. commercials. make some money. then my new single, my new record went came out and i went, wow, they're playing the record. after that was over a new jingle came out. and i called my manager and said we've got to shut the jingles down. >> total saturation. >> too much. >> rock star dream had enormous success around the time mtv was huge which brings me to, what, the hair. >> the hair, yeah. >> you had long hair for most of your life. >> yeah, yeah. the beatles, the british invasion, i blame them.

the beatles and the stones started showing up on tv. my brother and i had two of our own bands. long hair which back then was just over your ears was long hair. got in trouble in school because they didn't want us wearing long hair, influencing other kids. you couldn't walk down the streets in new haven without somebody rolling the window down -- and i mean rolling because they didn't have electric windows back then, and yelling and swearing at you basically because you had long hair. we came up with our own creative rhetorics, of course. >> was it hard to cut it short? >> it was because there was a connection. besides the beatles and the stones and being influenced, you also had to fight for it. then suddenly you became part of the revolution and the individual expression being your freedom and your right. and so, you know, the rebellion is part of who you are as a kid, as a teenager. but 20 years later, columbia records had spent 50 million

dollars picturing posters of you, your likeness, on buses and posters and billboards and one day i just said, i think it's time for a new look. i'm going to cut it. and it was scary. it was really scary. the guy that cut my hair would cut brad pitt's hair and tom cruise and other people in film. so my assistant and my stylist teamed up and conspired actually to get me to cut it while i was thinking about it. his name is chris mcmillan. he cut it. i figured i would look like brad pitt or tom cruise, and it didn't happen. >> no, i think it worked. >> it worked. >> it's not like sampson and deld delilah. the hair is not the source of your power. >> no, it's still there, the voice. >> michael bolton, it's great having you here. thank you. >> thanks for having me. we'll go to the kitchen and have a potato palooza. four ways to cook spuds.

there's thousands of them

back now with how to cook everything "today," potatoes, there are something like 10,000 ways to cook them. mark bittman is teaching us this morning. "how to cook everything."

this is like the three-piece suit you used to buy, with the reversible jacket. >> recent development absolutely the best, if you're only going to have one. they can sort of take the place of russets, baking potatoes, very starchy or waxy potatoes which sometimes are called new and can be red or white. but yukon gold has the features of both. we can use them in everything. >> one size fits all potato? >> absolutely. >> first recipe, what is it? tater tots? the '8 0s called. so excited. >> why did you scoff? >> no, they're my favorite thing in a world. there are nobel prize winning tater tots in the frozen food section. why would you make them at home? >> because a, they're fun and, b, they're better. >> they're fun. >> we boil potatoes then peel. much easier to peel.

it is quite a process. we do that. then we grate them. >> okay. >> that's a demo. >> show that i could. >> we don't need that. >> cornstarch, garlic powder. >> you have to peel it, no getting out of the peeling? >> no getting out of t it's a labor of love. when we get to the end of the -- you may think this really has been worth it. you toss them together. toss together the grated potatoes with the cornstarch and roll this into a log or shape little hand-formed tater tots so your guests and friends know you did this yourself. >> they're not perfect. they go into hot canola oil? >> this is the perfect one made by bianca. there's an imperfect one, made by moi. >> they taste the same. >> they taste exactly the same. when they're done, they all look great. here we take them out.

we have a couple. it all happens this quickly. >> yeah, sure. >> you take them out and you dry -- you know, get the excess oil off. then you whip them into the oven. >> how long? >> 10, 15 minutes maybe until they're beautiful, light this. >> okay. great. >> you can freeze them between this stage and that stage and then you can pretend that they're ore' ida. >> perfect. the next one is more high brow, this is pomanette. >> because they're small versions of pomana. the mandolin which, of course, has caused many a bloody finger. that's not going to happen here. this is just the best possible tool to slice potatoes thinly. then -- good morning. >> good morning. >> toss the potatoes with melted butter and you arrange them in a

lovely, concentric circle pattern which, if you do that, they will then look like this. if you're too lazy to do that -- >> butter, potato, salt and pepper? >> and bake. you turn them -- well, you turn them. >> that's okay. >> by the way, i said four ways. since we're running out of time you also have mashed potatoes with some herbs and -- >> braised potatoes with red wine and pancetta. >> recipes on today.com. braved . breaking news on the beltway at 8:56. chopper is over the scene of this serious accident on the beltway at route 50. a tractor trailer, fire truck and suv all flipped in the crash. seven people are hurt, but we expect three firefighters to be released soon. one, however, is in critical condition. some lanes are open now, but traffic is still a mess.

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we're back now with more of "today" on this wednesday morning, the 30th day of january, 2013. we've got spring-like weather here in new york city. a nice, but temporary break from that deep freeze we've been feeling. >> it's too hot, it's too cold. we need just right. >> the temperature wars, we never settle on middle ground. >> apparently somebody thinks it should be hot. >> i'm willie geist along with al, natalie and tamron. we have a very special guest sitting over there, the kid president. before we get to him, let's take a look at super bowl ad teasers and really talk about whether or

not this is a good idea. 34 of last year's ads were online before the super bowl. that number is going up this year. the argument is youtube gives you a bigger audience. you get 6-1 more views than you do without it. >> nowadays, the average price of a 30-second ad on network television is about $4 million. >> and that's not counting your cost to produce it. >> you get free and, as you said, six times more viewers. >> and a hipper audience. not that old eer people aren't hip, al. >> why are you looking at al? >> you think you should put the full commercial out there? >> why not? >> or do what some advertisers are doing and just put a teaser out there? >> put the whole thing out. >> just get it out there. >> they did that last year with the volkswagen ad. that sure didn't hurt them. >> there are some companies holding out and say they like the surprise element of it. it feels like it's all going this way. >> i suppose if you've got a commercial that has a big surprise in it, you probably would want to tease it.

>> not a bad idea, commercials letting you decide the ending. >> yeah. >> i love the dad, by the way. >> this is so cute. >> the doritos? >> because dads can relate. the things you do, right, al? >> that's right. >> i love it. >> i love the guy with the beard. >> is that my wedding dress? >> the wife says. >> could be. >> well, speaking of commercials, take two is a taco bell ad stirring up a bit of controversy. we won't tell you what it is. see if you're offended by anything in this ad. >> veggies on game day is like punting, it's a cop out and secretly people hate you for it. featuring taco bell's variety pack. a game day tradition. >> offended? >> i didn't see anything. did i miss it? >> the vegetable people. >> the vegetable people. >> the vegetable. >> the vegetable lobby is very upset. >> why? >> because you're mocking vegetable. >> it's not a healthy message.

>> putting a stigma. >> it's taco bell. >> thank you, tamron. >> i survived my whole teen years on taco bell. it worked out. >> leads to childhood obesity. >> it's a super bowl party. >> and that case, by the way, looks like beer. >> maybe that's where they should be more offended. >> one has nothing to do with the other. by the way, when you do bring vegetables, people look at you like -- >> i'mne of those people that bring the vegetables. >> you do? >> you wonder why you're not getting invited. >> oh! >> that's not nice. >> no. >> i thought you wanted me there. >> i do like vegetables. >> vegetable tray at a super bowl party. you want cueso, cheese. >> you can have vegetables and tacos. >> i always bring a healthy option. >> you can have both. >> by the way, all this said, taco bell pulled the ad. >> what? come on. >> we didn't want anyone to misinterpret the intent of the ad. come on, guys.

at some point -- >> wasn't there lettuce on that taco? >> not enough. not enough. >> there's salsa. >> tomatoes, sure. >> tomat((sqáhure. they won. >> the veggie tales. take three, we could not possibly be more excited about this. >> oh, my god. >> have you heard about the kid president? if the answer is yes, you're one of the more than 4 million people on youtube who have been inspired by this video. >> what if michael jordan had quit? he retired, but before that in high school, what if he quit when he didn't make the team? he would never have made space jam, and i love space jam. what will be your space jam? what will you create that will make the world awesome? nothing if you keep sitting there. that's why i'm talking to you today. this is your time. this is my time. it's our time. we can make every day better for

each other. if we're all on the same team, let's start acting like it we can cry about it or we can dance about it. let's get out there. >> and we are lucky this morning to be joined by the kid president himself, robby novak. >> mr. president. >> i would vote for you. >> it is an honor, here with his brother-in-law who collaborated and helped shoot the video. >> he just called me his sidekick. >> hollywood now. >> there are 4.2 million views of this. i just checked. you have celebrities sending it out, tweeting it out. have you accepted that you're now a celebrity? can you believe it? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> there you go. >> totally natural. you start the video by saying the country needs a pep talk, the world needs a pep talk. why did you think the world needed that? >> maybe my sidekick knows.

>> your sidekick. press secretary. >> we just were trying to put something positive on the internet. we always just goofed around and we put it online. and our family liked it. and then a lot of people watched it. >> who came up with the words to it? even the two roads diverged? do you know? >> kind of both of us. we just -- he makes the boring parts. he makes the awesome parts. >> wow! >> there you go. >> so -- >> sidekick thing is working out for you. >> is dancing part of the awesome parts? did you create those moves? >> uh-huh. >> can you show us those moves? come on out here. you know you want to do it. >> my sidekick has to. >> go together, hand in hand. here we go. >> he does so much dancing. >> let's see. >> stick that in your pocket.

>> while they're miking you up, who is your inspiration? is it michael jordan, robert frost? you mention a lot of people. who is your inspiration? >> michael jordan. >> okay. >> here we go. >> you have some moves you want to show everybody. >> do we need music? >> cue the music. >> you had one last night, the one for -- >> oh, that was -- >> what have you got, mr. president? >> come on, mr. president. >> okay. he doesn't want to do it. we won't put him on the spot. >> have you heard from president obama? no? >> not yet. >> we'll dance with you. show us some moves. >> i have one. >> you know the twirl dance? >> do a little wiggle in your video. can you show us that? okay. >> there you go.

>> no, no, no. >> i love some of the lines in this video. >> so great. >> he says i'm not in a party. i am a party. >> i am a party. >> did he come up with those lines or did you help him with that? >> that was him. all these people were sendg e-mails, you could ask a question to the president and everybody wanted to know what political party he was in. i was trying to explain to him, republicans and then there's democrats and there's independents and he got really distracted and bored and was like, i'm not in a party. i am a party. >> there you go. >> which was way better than anything i would have ever said. >> when did this explode for you? when did it take off? you made it originally just for your family. now 4 million hits later. how did you get there? >> our first video went online july 5th. family and friends watched that and it kept building and building. in october, rain wilson with phil pancake reached out to us. it was a really good fit. they're all about putting out positive things on the internet.

>> we know all the hollywood agents are calling, right? >> look at him hamming it up. >> what do your friends think about this, robby? >> you mean like my friends from school? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> they think it's awesome. >> i see a theme here. >> you are the party. >> so cool. >> so good to meet you, mr. president. >> good to have you here. >> thank you as well. go check it out online if you haven't seen it. >> now natalie has a look at the headlines. >> got some work to do. thank you. thank you for coming in today. >> now he goes. >> oh, sure. little grasshopper. in the news this morning, al has been talking about all these storms they've been dealing with. a day of weather extremes throughout much of the u.s. record highs and flooding rains expected in the east coast. threat of tornadoes from ohio to mississippi. severe storms overnight downed trees and left thousands without power. at least one person was killed.

a man in tennessee was hit by a falling tree. hillary clinton is in her final days as secretary of state. speaking tuesday with nbc's andrea mitchell, she did not close the door on a potential presidential run in 2016. she was asked what went wrong during her time as secretary of state. >> well, benghazi went wrong. you know, that was a terrible example of trying to get the right balance between being in a threatening place or not being there. >> but in retrospect, shouldn't a cable, warning of a security threat from an ambassador in a conflict zone, shouldn't that get the highest possible attention immediately? >> well, that's what we're hoping to make sure it does happen in the future. >> clinton says she worries about extremists groups that shoot teenage girls because they want to go to school. secretary clinton's replacement won overwhelming senate approvial tuesday as joh

kerry is expected to become the next secretary of state. he resigns as senator effective friday. more now on the iraq war veteran we told you about tuesday. brendan marrocco, having lost both legs and arms in a roadside bombing now has four replacement limbs, including two newly transplanted arms. at a news conference he said it's like a second chance to start over. he hopes one day to play competitive sports and drive his car. barbara walters is out of the hospital and is recovering at home now from chicken pox. the 83-year-old host of "the view" and long time co-host of this program is said to be resting comfortably and getting stronger. she had been hospitalized about ten days. a new website has fashion going to the dogs. men'swear dogs features a 3-year-old new york city pooch with a knack for style. it shows what all the best dressed dogs should be wearing, from denim jackets to a chunky

shawl collar cardigan to a new suit. it's had hundreds of thousands of hits already. what will they think of next? valentine's day comes up two weeks from today, reminder n japan, tuesday was love your wife day. some men spent the day professing their love from the top of their lungs. you've never heard i love you quite like this. take a look. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i should have been a contender! >> who could resist? their wives seemed to appreciate it all with or without ear plugs, or without shirts in some cases. >> that's a nice touch. >> there you go. >> i like it. >> you, too, can do that for your wives. >> do it now. >> we'll keep the shirts on. >> go ahead. go, go.

go for it. >> every day is love your wife day. >> both willie and i walk in the house going, hey. >> with the shirt off! >> they've exactly. that's right. they learned. exit stage left. al, how about a quick check of the weather. >> again, as natalie just mentioned. tornado watches now stretching from louisiana all the way on up to west virginia and ohio and as far east as georgia. we are watching this very vigorous line of heavy thunderstorms developing a risk of strong storms from mobile all the way up to pittsburgh and washington, d.c. tornadoes can't be ruled out as this system pushes through. behind it cold air being pulled in. foot of snow in iowa and snow moves up into the great lakes with heavy rain in the northeast. flood watches interior parts of pennsylvania, new york on into new england and heavy snows up to six to nine inches from cadillac all the way back to

waterloo, iowa. that's what's going on around the country. >> good morning, we are in that risk zone. all these areas in yellow west virginia, virginia, maryland, the district could get some damaging winds from this squall line that is rapidly moving east. actually picking up speed here over the last couple of hours and arriving a little earlier than it seemed this morning. maybe between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. and that squall line sweeping through. maybe damaging winds and a few isolated tornados and brief, very heavy downpours and rain ending after midnight. cold into >> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thanks a lot. social media etiquette with randy zuckerberg, when we come back. olive garden's three course italian dinner. it's back for just $12.95. featuring 5 delicious new entrees to choose from. go creamy and dig into rich new penne di mare with shrimp. or maybe go crunchy with new parmesan potato crusted chicken. served with unlimited fresh salad and warm breadsticks. finish with a decadent dessert.

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social norms seem to change as quickly as social media does, between e-mail, texting, skype, face time, pinterest, instagram, twitter, we are all in touch all the time. >> yes, we are. for digital etiquette advice for the modern world, we have sister of facebook founder mark zuckerberg. good to see you. i love how willie said in the commercial break, try not to sound like old folks but i'm all those things, too. >> i am, too. >> are your people on itg etiquette, being good digital citizens. is is a modern, wild world we

live in. >> you know of what you speak. there was a little flare up last month. tell me if i get this right. >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> tell me if i have the story right and what we can take away from it. you post a picture on facebook of you and your family, including your brother, mark zuckerberg. it ends up being tweeted out by someone and makes its way around the web. how did it happen, a and, b, why were you so upset about it? >> that's right. it was a family photo, christmas eve. we were having a great dinner. and took a photo, tagged my family in it. one of my sisters' friends, i guess, saw the photo and thought, oh, the holy grail of photos, it's mark, it's facebook, it's tech. and took it from facebook, a screen shot, and tweeted it publicly. so, you know i just thought it was an interesting way to spark a conversation about digital etiquette. it shows that, you know, even -- no matter who you are or where you sit, we have these issues that come up with, you know, our information. >> so not to dis your sister, but the proper etiquette would

have been to ask you? what was the right or wrong move here? >> i think definitely asking my sister for permission, but also, you know, if you're friends with someone and you see their photo on facebook, they're friends with you because they trust you to exhibit good judgment and not go take a photo and put it publicly. but, you know, honestly my personal thoughts in all of this, i have posted thousands of fun photos on facebook over the years and that's the one that goes viral? i'm not even in it. at least they could have chosen one i was in. >> when is it not okay to announce personal matters online, engagement, we're having a baby, getting a divorce? what's the answer to that? >> you're talking to the queen of oversharing here. i may be a little biased. first of all, don't announce a big life event, unless you've given kind of a heads up to the people who are important to you in your life. you know, like -- >> like your mom, telling your

mom you're engaged before going online. i've heard that happen. >> your mom should not find out you're pregnant through facebook. that's probably not a great thing. >> sound advice. here is the part where we feel old. nobody uses the phone anymore. when they talk to each other. it is true. how can you keep up a meaningful, personal relationship? keep in touch with people without the phone? >> it's gotten pretty taboo to use the phone. you have to e-mail people to set up a time to have a phone call. we build phone calls into these huge obligations. i think just a light, personal touch is really nice. i actually -- i do kind of group text a lot of time. >> i do, too. >> yeah. >> i've grown to hate it now. when i started group texting merry christmas, i thought that was wrong. >> that's not good. a mass e-mail, merry christmas. >> i have a 2-year-old son and my parents, my in-laws, they all want to see photos. it's really hard to do -- skype is awesome, but then you're like, what's my password?

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i mean, what teddy bear? how is the lunch lady you had a crush on? >> that's0gz it, i'm calling mo >> you guys arexñ headed out to the respective cities. >> i'm in san francisco, natalie in baltimore. >> baltimore. >> that's all friday morning. of course, we've been talking about( ha in new orleans. but here in new york city, natalie and tamron versus yours truly and mr. geist, super bowl cookoff. >> i think the girls have it. >> you've been doing a lot of trash talk. all day, she really has. >> i've talked to some people, i won't name any names. >> in the kitchen. >> and said willie's recipe and yours were laughable. those were the words, laughable. >> keep talking. >> we know how to bring it. we talk it because we can bring it. >> go ahead. >> it's just that way. >> see you in a few minutes. >> okay. here is a great way to segue here. when is it okay to -- basically

fill in the blanks. everything from your partner's weight, talk to them about their weight, losing weight, to checking their e-mails, to trash talking your co-hosts and anchors. when is it okay? when is it not okay? >> so looking forward to this segment to see what they say about the weight thing, is it okay to ever tell your significant other about their weight? >> i think -- oh, never. >> if there's a health issue or something. >> yes. >> but meantime, al -- >> as i like to say, we know we're fat. so you're not helping us. let's check your your weather and see what we have going on. and, again, we've been talking about this risk of strong storms from the gulf into the mid-atlantic states and rain and heavy rain later today into the northeast and new england where we've got flood watches, rain in the pacific northwest and snow developing into the great lakes and tomorrow lake-effect snow gets fired up as reinforcing shot of arctic air comes blasting into the plains and the great lakes.

windy conditions there. few showers in the pacific northwest and rain exits new england. we're looking at cool conditions all the way down into the southeast with snow showers in the northern rockies. that's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> beginning to climb into the 60s across much of virginia and maryland still in the 50s many locations and we could get some storms later today moving in. right now looks like earlier than it looked predawn. five to 10:00 p.m. and perhaps into the metro area and some of them could be producing damaging wind with heavy rain and gusts of wind up to 60 miles per hour. clearing out after midnight. windy and colder tomorrow. the cold pattern continues into the weekend and could get flurries >> and that's your latest weather. tamron? >> al, thank you. this morning, our series "when is it okay to?" this morning, helping us navigate some sticky family affairs, darlene rodriguez, anchor at wnbc here in new york,

kelly wallace is a chief correspondent for ivillage, rachel campos, political pundit and dr. taylor is a psychologist. good morning, ladies. i thought about this a lot last night. al just said something. you know, when someone is overweight, guess what, they know it. so when you're dealing with your spouse, when is it okay to tell your spouse they need to lose weight? darlene? >> i think it depends how you say it. >> really? how you say it? give me an example of how you present this. >> what you don't want to say is that -- what you could say is that we need to eat healthier, we need to shed a few pounds and adopt a healthy lifestyle and we could do that together. >> i tell my husband he needs to lose weight. frankly, if you look at the life span of married men, they're healthier than single men. i think it's because they have wives who take care of them. >> that's true. >> i think it's context, too.

you could have an argument and say you need to take out the trash and you've gained too much weight. >> that's just abuse. >> it happens sometimes because we spend so little time communicating and we get that window, instead of talking about what we want to happen, we throw something in. >> you had an ex-boyfriend in college? >> i did. i won't name names but he knows who he is. >> oh, name names. >> he looked at me and my physical appearance and said, you know, you really need to workout. that did nothing for my body image. that did not help. >> that's a double standard, i would not like him telling me. i do feel like he has a very busy travel lifesometime and it can creep up on you. >> i think if there is an ovs health issue -- you can have a few extra pounds and not have high blood pressure, and other serious issues but if it gets into a health situation, that, to me, would be the only way that you could -- >> as women we do take things a little bit too personally. the fact is that we do need to workout more and do need to lose

weight. it goes both ways. >> and we don't want to hear it. >> do you think it's easier for a man to take it than a woman to take it? >> i think of the man's feelings as well. i think of my mom's advice and she says i'm your mother and i love you and if i don't tell you, who will. >> that's true. >> use that in your relationship. >> when is it okay to snoop through your partner's e-mails? >> what? >> we've been disagreeing. >> i say any time. i think if you're writing something that you don't want your spouse to see, you probably shouldn't be writing it. >> you're okay the snooping? >> i don't consider it snoop in. i go on my husband's e-mail, he can go on mine. >> it's an agreement? >> i have his password, he has mine. >> if you think there's something going on, you're looking through their texts and e-mails, something is going on in your relationship. don't be nancy drew, ask him. >> are you prepared to say something if you find something

or not, or build resentment or have a confrontation? >> that's the next step. if you find something that sees a little suspicious, you now have to say i went through your e-mail and i cracked your passcode. by the way, it was basketball and it was easy. what do you do in that situation? >> it's the kind of thing that i think almost everyone does t it's not okay. but people tend to do it anyway. >> are you confessing you've done it? >> it's open. it's understood that i can look. and you can look. >> that's still snooping. >> not a shared account, who is willing to confess that you actually have gone in and read an e-mail without permission? >> that's my point. everyone has done it. >> for my husband, i don't need permission to get on his e-mail. >> so it doesn't count as snooping? >> my husband gets the breaking news to his e-mail, i rationalize, it just keeps me up-to-date. i'm not looking for anything else. >> moving on.

when is it okay to borrow or loan money to family friends without discussing it first? i think it's never -- shouldn't you tell your spouse or significant other? >> yes. absolutely. >> it depends. >> what do you mean? >> who you're lending the money to, a few hundred dollars for a girlfriend to purchase something you don't have to say something but if it's $10,000 for your irresponsible uncle jimmy who is bankrupt and blows all his money, maybe you should be more open. >> tell me what happened to you with a credit card. >> i do the bills, financial end in the family. and i started running up a balance on a credit card a few years ago when we were strapped not telling my husband thinking i'm going to take care of it. my husband found out and he was angry and he had every right to be. absolutely. you don't want to keep secrets like that. >> i want to get to this one. summer is around the corner, hopefully. when is it okay to go on vacation without your husband or kids? i know that a lot of moms have a tough time with this. what do you think? >> i have done it.

i have great girlfriends. it's always okay, but talk to your husband and see how they feel. >> i don't have a lot of time. so when i have time to go on vacation, i want to be with my husband. not only with my kids. >> we have a girls road trip, you're not invited. thank you very much. up next, one man, two identities. actor steven pasquale right after this. new honey bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain. here we go. honey cornflakes and chunks of greek yogurt. i'm tasting both the yogurt and the honey at the same time. i'm like digging this yogurt thing.

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it's a great roller coaster ride every day. >> by day you're the doctor, saving lives. 8:25 pm, ian comes to life. what happens? >> he shows up at 8:25 pm every night and leaves at 8:25 am every morning. ian, of course, is your very dangerous sociopath, master manipulator, party boy, drug addict, wreaking havoc on jason's classic, earnest, honest, do-gooding self. >> felicia rashad plays your boss? >> i showed up for work and i was like, mrs. huxtable, you don't understand. you were like my second mother. >> she was all of our second mothers, just doesn't know it. >> truly. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> "do no harm" airs tomorrow night 10:00 pm, 9:00 central time. >> getting ready for a head start in our super bowl cookoff.

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wings, put them in the fridge. let them marinade two to 12 hours. you take these off and put them on a baking pan, bake them for about 30, 35 minutes and then just before they're done, you turn the broiler on or put them on the grill, grill them, throw some scallions over them, crushed peanuts if nobody has any kind of an allergy and there you have it. >> beautiful. >> anyone want to give that a shot? >> while you taste that, kenny. >> wow sthrks. >> great? >> pretty impressive, al. >> thank you. >> kenny. >> what is he going to say, it's terrible? >> he's not going to say it's bad. >> i have guacamole, generations. >> generations of geists. >> cut up your avocado, like so. >> very impressive. right through. >> you take out the pit, dump it out, dice it, put it in here. >> you look like you've actually done this before. >> i have done this before, thank you, for generations. >> geist is german for

guacamole. >> cilantro, garlic. >> how much cilantro? i'm curious. >> good, healthy bit. >> a good bit? >> just a taste. thanks. >> how many times you've actually done this. >> you mash it up. and then you end up with this beautiful thing. these are great chips. you have a party on your hands. let me know what you think. >> very good. >> little salt and pepper. >> going for seconds. >> double dipping there. okay. bring it. come on. >> little healthier alternative, but it's still hearty. >> chicken wings are really fattening. >> turkey sweet potato chili. we brown the turkey meat. here in this pot we've stewed down some onions, peppers, h jalapenos and tomato paste. the kick here is the seasoning. middle eastern flare to it.

red chile, as you would expect. cinnamon -- that, i think, then cumin, oregano, red chile peppers. add all of the wet ingredients. tamron, as i pour everything in, tell them what you've got here. >> you guys took so much time. >> you took up the time on purpose. >> tammy boo boo's onion dip. it's processed cheese like honey boo boo and her family. carmela lang, italian mama. shred your cracker barrel cheese. only cracker barrel. use a small to medium onion. put it in the refrigerator two hours after you do the mayo. little mayo in there, see? stir it up. >> it ends up like that? >> it ends up like this after two hours. the secret surprise is strawberry preserves in the

middle. >> there you go. >> put it on a ritz cracker. this is like super bowl food meaning it's fatty. >> here is a little something from us. >> before you go -- >> bribery. >> is there any bribery from this side? >> we already told you about the -- >> kenny, what do you think? >> come on. >> what do you think? >> everybody did a great job. tremendous. i love the bribery. for me, super bowl is all about hand food, eating, fun. everybody is run ining around, trophy goes to the kids. >> oh, yes! >> oh, man. >> yes. >> you guys ate up all our time. >> too much talking over there. >> nothing to do with the beer, i swear. >> okay. >> kenny callahan, thank you so much. >> oh, man. >> the proof is in the -- >> all our recipes will be on today.com. >> there's only

breaking news at 9:57. major backups all around the region from this serious accident on the beltway involving a tractor trailer, a fire truck and suv. danella sealock is here with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. here is the situation where we're waiting for this accident to clear and so far still a tractor trailer is there and a left lane, as you travel the outer loop and inner loop of the beltway at 50 in maryland.

that's what is block ed. the problem is turning the tractor trailer. it's on its side getting it back the right side up is taking some time. we'll talk about the delays. now, as you travel this time on the outer loop of the beltway, excuse me, the inner loop of the beltway heading towards 50, you are slow, it will take you about 47 minutes. tom, over to you. good morning. a squall line coming into west virginia out of kentucky and out of ohio and it's advancing east into the yellow zone, which is the severe risk zone and a severe thunderstorm watch and that may be moving east. we'll have that watch maybe later today. we'll keep you posted on. >> tom, thank you. looking for a s (woman) 3 days of walking to give a break cancer survivor a lifetime-- that's definitely a fair trade. it was such a beautiful experience. (jessica lee) ♪ and it's beautiful (woman) why walk 60 miles in the boldest breast cancer event in history? because your efforts help komen serve millions of women and men facing breast cancer every year. visit the3day.org to register

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from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hello, everybod and welcome winless wednesday, january 30th. thank goodness this is the last winless wednesday ever for us. >> mark your calendars, because this time next week, on this day next week, we are going to have a party to blow it out. we don't really know -- >> not that much. >> might not be that big of a deal. >> there's a little thing called

a super bowl in between. >> whatever. >> hoda's going to have fun. i think hoda's been cheating, i do. along the way. >> not on e show. we have been on other shows, i have not had a sip on other shows, although they are pushing it. i did mike huckabee's show on fox. there was a glass there off camera and i said, oh, my god, what's that? we wanted you to feel at home. i reached for it. >> just wanted to sniff it. >> he said it was called baptist wine, which is grape juice. >> mr. huckabee, he's a sweet man. are you finished with your tour, book tour? >> i'm going to go to palm beach this week and do a book signing. >> people love you down there. >> at jennifer miller's jewelry store. >> you have to share her. >> i will share. okay, guess where we're going. >> we're going to los angeles.

>> yes, we are. we're taking the show on the road, sunny california. >> all kinds of details how you can join us out there. starting february 11th. >> we're going to have two weeks of shows. >> two weeks of shows out there. >> today, though, is mild here. it's going to be 50 degrees. >> it's just weird. >> weird weather. >> 50-some degrees, foggy where i live, wet. >> sara's out there in the wetness and looking for a couple of people in the crowd who are going to come in and get their game on with us. >> get crazy. i want to see some of these people to see where we're going to pick from. >> oh, wow. good. building up. excellent. >> sad news this morning for ashley judd and her husband of 11 years. he's the race car driver, a lot of people know, they said they

were splitting. excuse me, calling it quits. they put out a joint statement together saying they decided to mutually end their marriage. they always will be family and continue to cherish our relationship based on love, respect, integrity, and joy. >> these things are always well worded, but when i read back, can you go back to what it says exactly? >> here it is. >> that doesn't help me. >> here it is. >> that makes it worse. we'll always be family and continue to cherish our relationship based on the special love, integrity, and respect we have always enjoyed. if you have all that, then why can't you make the marriage work? i'm not saying they don't have it, i'm not questioning. the wording is always interesting to me. i think if you've got all those components in your relationship, why would there not be hope for that marriage? >> we don't know what goes on. >> just for the press, just so you can say we're both being adults, it's going to get nasty. i think that's what it really

is. >> something that struck me about her relationship with her husband, i remember being envious is a strong word, but thinking, wow, they are very, very lucky. i remember how it seemed how deep it was, how open it was, and how it seemed to be steamy, very kind of public steamy relationship. she kept saying, you know, we always keep our relationship, you know, keep the home fires burning, and sometimes after 11 years, you think god, if they can do that, why aren't we doing that? >> it's hard to keep home fires burning if you're not home. he's on the road. that's a grueling schedule. she's an actress. almost never shoot movies and things where you live. you're almost always on location. it takes a very, very extraordinary relationship to last through that sort of stuff. >> but back to the question, do people who seem to have all that chemistry and they talk about it and you peek in, is it real and why don't i have that. we saw that with heidi klum. >> i don't know why you don't have it, i pray for you every

day. >> mock tail, i don't even want it. >> we were so surprised when they broke up. >> they got married every year. >> renewed their vows. >> every time you saw them, they were kissing. >> beautiful babies. >> ashton kutcher and demi moore seemed to be publicly affectionate. you peeked in, oh, if i could just have that. >> not just that that keeps two people together. it helps. i think that's a big part of our culture problem. >> what's that? >> the media tells us that it's all about sex. sex is a wonderful part of a relationship, but it's one component. you could have the world's great essex life and have a lousy marriage. >> but you always hope you can still have the steam after years and years and years and years. what's the truth? >> you can't. >> that's the end of that. >> you can't. you can have something that's even better and deeper.

if that's what you want is just steamy and steamy, first of all, your bodies are going to tell you differently. you age and men lose their testosterone by the time they are age 50, they've lost half it. women go through hormonal changes. why don't you find a different kind of contentment, you know, have those moments when you still rekindle what you have. >> you need the rekindling moments, too. >> you're not the same person you were when you were 18 years old. >> you can have moments and still have hot sex. >> yes, you can. yes, you can. not as often or as long. [ laughter ] but then you really appreciate it when you have it. >> there's a lot of -- we talked about public affection, there's also public proporoposals. if you google proposals -- >> that's why it's not special to me. >> there was one in l.a., guy

decided he would propose to his girlfriend, threw a pink smoke bomb up in the air. >> alert the s.w.a.t. team, great. >> she said, yes. >> what did people behind them waiting in line to get to a doctor's appointment or work, how were they feeling? great blessings on the couple? >> they were fine. >> that's the last thing l.a. needs, more people stopping traffic. >> on broadway, cinderella is on broadway, a couple got on stage, a man proposed to his -- police officer proposed to his girlfriend on stage. >> why that one doesn't bother me, it doesn't impact other people who are not interested in you getting -- you know? >> i do wonder about public propos proposals. people like it on the jumbotron or jay leno. >> we live in a society that really doesn't -- nothing's

sacred anymore. everybody tells everybody about everything. >> all the details. >> i'm reading a book right now, i can't believe one person wrote that about another person in their life. i think, what does that tell you about the person that wrote the book? everything. >> right. >> you don't know if everything you're reading is true about the person, but you find out everything about the person writing that garbage. >> by the way, on to a fun note, we have a great show today. we have liza manelli in the house. >> we have a big party going on. >> he is singing for us. and we have en-joy. our two teams are checking in. >> we are going to have a lot of fun. stick around and get this party started right after this. they said we didn't have time. it always begins with fresh, local milk, blended with real wholesome cream.

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two grammys and sold over 53 albums and singles. >> his hit song, like "how am i supposed to live without you," has taken him to number one. recently, he showed off his comic side, michael is obsessed with one particular movie, and by the way, the video got nearly 99 million hits on youtube. take a look. ♪ ♪ he was born, he yearned for adventure ♪ ♪ oh, captain jack ♪ he's a chester of the surf ♪ >> what it did for your career, baby. michael's out with a new book called "the soul of it all: my

music, my life." >> great to see you. >> spent a lot of the day reading through this book. so many people assume you had so much success right off the bat. even though you did get your first recording contract at age 16, tell us about those years you didn't have anything going on. >> the years you can remember. >> enough about -- >> i had a record deal when i was 16. i signed with epic with cbs records. i thought, wow, i made it. 18 years later, i had my first hit. long, long run. >> what's great about your book, you learn about you, but there's opportunities artists may have taken to trash people in his life. that's what people do, talk about relationships. >> they want to sell it. >> you steered clear of that. why did you decide to write this? >> that's part of the theme, the soul of it all, getting the point of everything, the point of your life and different

chapters of your life, including some of the hardest moments and times. understanding the meaning of it, what the depth of it is. that doesn't really work well with trashing and pointing fingers at other people and blaming. that's just negative energy you don't need. >> what was the purpose for you, what did you want to accomplish from it? >> well, for me, if you know anything about golf -- >> okay. >> yeah. >> okay. >> you don't want to hook in golf. >> don't say hook. >> you want to hook in music, but not in golf. >> you do know. i played the front nine. i'm now teeing off at the back nine of my career and my life, and this book is my tee shot. >> that's great. >> there's a lot of things i want to do, films, musicals, more albums. i have another album coming out february 8th. there's a lot going on, but the story, i've been putting chapters away and putting moments away i think should come

up in the book. unfortunately, for me, i have a great publisher and editor, who's here, by the way, who believed in my story enough and hearing about what the story was like and how that will resinate with people who have had some rough spots and don't think, you know, that it's all about the glamour and the glitz. >> what was your roughest spot, when you talk about one of your lows that you really pulled out of, how would you nut shell that? >> the single hardest time was sitting at the kitchen table with three young daughters and wife and not wanting them to know how broke we were. keeping it from the kids. >> right. >> and having rent checks bouncing and a really nice guy as a landlord who said, i can't carry you anymore. you have to leave. we didn't have homelessness, the term, we weren't using that back then. it was just, the reality of it,

was right there. so, that's something you never forget, you never get it out of your system. >> speaking of your children, there's one really interesting portion of the book, you were sued for plagiarism. >> copyright infringement. >> i felt your pain, wait a minute, i never heard this song before. we had a tape of us writing it together, and you were still found to be guilty. that goes to the soul of a person, pardon the pun. you stole somebody else's child and called it your own. >> what happens is your child gets taken from you. >> yeah, yeah. i felt for you. >> that was up there with one of the worst things that could ever happen to anybody. >> the book is really interesting. >> very uplifting, a lot of life lessons. >> even though you don't trash anybody, i think it's going to sell a whole lot of books. hopefully, you won't kick hoda off the new york times bestsellers. >> plenty of room for us. >> of course, there is. >> are you going to sing for us

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again, here's my team, yelena, jessica, and mindy. >> and cathy, zakiya, heidi. master of ceremonies, joy bauer! >> this segment is hot. it's a hot segment. >> ladies, what do you think? first, we're going to feature everybody's weight loss, then we're going to jump into the challenge. pretty impressive. we're going to start with team hoda. yele yelena, last week, 139, this week 137. total of eight pounds. next -- eight pounds. jessica. last week, she was 200, now she's 195. loss of five pounds, a total of 11 pounds. >> 11, are you kidding? >> now we have mindy. last week she was 191. now she's 185. down six pounds for a total of 13 pounds. >> 13, 13, 13!

>> ladies, don't let me down here. >> team hoda is down a collective 32 pounds. >> that's fantastic. >> okay, go. >> now we're going to go kathy. last week 162, now 158. down four pounds, a total of ten pounds for kathy. then we have zakiya. last week she was 227, now she's 224. down three pounds. total of 11 pounds. lastly, heidi, last week, 173, now she's 171, she lost two pounds. she's down a total of 11 pounds. >> all right! >> so, totally, how many? >> total is, are you ready for this? you were down 32 pounds, your team is down 32 pounds. >> oh, my gosh! >> let's do the game. >> okay. last week we had a test your diet iq challenge, and you, actually, won. >> i wasn't here. >> what we're going to do is

three different exercises. the first is going to be jumping rope. >> okay. >> the next one -- who's responsible for jumping rope? yelena? who's over here? they are each going to jump rope for 30 counts. they are then going to high-five the next person, who is going to put on the boxing gloves and punch 15 times on one arm, 15 on the next, high-five the next person, who's going to come over to the ladders. in, out, in, out. then they'll tag me, and whoever wins is the reigning champion for this challenge. >> you're down at the end. >> here we go! >> go ahead. ♪ >> ready, go! >> one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. >> keep going, keep going, kathy! >> 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30! >> go, go, go! >> one, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten -- 12, 13, 14, 15 -- >> punch it, punch it! >> three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 -- >> in and out, in and out! >> go, go, go! go, go, go, go, go, go, go! go, go, go! >> what happened? what is it? joy? >> she didn't hit her hand. >> we're going to review the tape. they said they want to review the tape. >> we have to do an analysis. >> we're going to do it in slo-mo and watch at the end. we're going to slow it down. >> we're exhausted from this

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we are back on this winless wednesday with more of "today," and it's time to play our weekly trivia game we call "who knew" with the 49ers and ravens getting ready to battle it out in four days, we wanted to see if you're ready, so we're going to find out. ka lthie lee is across the stre, she's handing out $100 to those who get the answers right, and those who don't, get a great new book. okay, everyone's a winner. sportscaster and great friend of the show, len berman. >> you didn't say you wrote that book. that's a big deal, it's a bestseller. >> you rock. let's get started, shall we? >> good friend, right, hoda

woman? all right, from indiana, how much did a ticket to the first super bowl cost, and what is the average cost for a ticket this year. is it $12 before, now that. $15, now that. $20, now that, or $25 back then and now $1,000, what is it? >> i'm going to say $25 and now $1,000. >> no, but you're going to adore hoda's book. >> the correct answer here is $12 back then and $3,020 now, that's face value, huh? >> here's the thing, the game will sell out this time. when it was $12, super bowl i, wasn't a sellout. >> can't believe it costs that much. back across. >> sweet lady from columbia, maryland. out of the san francisco 49ers' five super bowl appearances thus far, how many have they won? >> three. >> good day for hoda woman. >> oh, baby. all right, the correct answer is they've won every, all five. >> they are the only undefeated super bowl team that's won more than one.

baltimore wins, they'll be 2-0. >> what do you think's going to happen, by the way? >> i'm leaning towards baltimore. >> back across. >> cute young thing from toronto. where did the baltimore ravens' nickname originate, state bird of raven, sam raven was instrumental in the city getting a football team, edgar allanpoe's poem? >> i'm going for "a." >> yeah, hoda! >> i love today. >> i got the wrong answer. no sam raven. >> tell us the right answer. >> edgar allan poe lived and died in baltimore. they picked the raven. good thing he didn't write about trees. baltimore trees. >> back across. >> this lady lives in jim thorpe, pennsylvania. which two teams have tied for the most super bowl appearances?

>> the cowboys. >> yeah! no, she's right. she's right. it is pittsburgh steelers and dallas cowboys, isn't it? >> the name of the team she's heard of. >> pittsburgh's won the most, six, and dallas has won the next most, well, they won five. just go to the next one. >> another lady from pennsylvania. how much are super bowl commercials being sold for this year? $500,000, $1.5 million, $3 million, $4 million? >> you are smart as pretty. yes, you are. >> $4 million, is that for a 30-second ad? >> most people are talking at a party and don't get to hear the commercial anyway. >> they are showing them all before the game. >> is that smart? >> i don't know, i like to be surprised. we love you, we love you.

thanks for coming on. kathie is going to come back across the street. 40 years later, we're going to talk to the famous, liza minnelli, legendary cast of music musical right after this. [ tylenol bottle ] nyquil what are you doing?

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>> when the film adaptation of the broadway musical "cabaret" was released in 1972, it won eight academy awards, including best actress for liza minnelli, as the eccentric nightclub owner. best supporting actor to joel grey as the master of ceremonies at the kit cat club, and best director for director/choreographer bob fosse. ♪ maybe this time i'll be lucky ♪ >> set in 1931 pre-war germany against the backdrop of the rising nazi regime, the film also featured performances by michael york as sally's boyfriend. marissa berenson as a wealthy jewish heirish, plus a score by john kander and fred ebb that provide the songs and commentary

on the times. with its gritty realistic approach that broke with the tradition of the old style musical, "cabaret" was hailed as a groundbreaking film, e v provocative, risque, and wildly compelling. >> here they are, liza minnelli, joel grey, marissa berenson, and michael york. hi, ladies and gentlemen. >> when you hear that word, 40, must be earth shattering to all of you. [ laughter ] >> it's bizarre, because it feels like yesterday. but it also feels like 40 years ago. >> yeah, yeah. it was so monumental in all of your lives. >> it seems like watching your chemistry on the couch, you guys have stayed close through all the years. has your relationship maintained? >> we've been cuddled up for

years. >> it was a great experience, which bonded everyone, because we bonded with bob fosse. i think that's what was so special about it, we were his friends and he inspired us, he directed us, and we loved him and gave as much as we could back. >> loved each other. >> smart to be isolated there in germany, then have his way with you sort of. because you were pushing the envelope even then. didn't they almost shut you down at one point because it was so risque? >> well, it was. the wall was up. we were on one end of the wall, and there was the atmosphere of what was really going on in germany, which was so brilliant. >> the movie -- when we did the three shows, when we did the threesome, and i'm with everybody -- >> ain't your first time in the rodeo. >> they went -- yeah, this isn't acceptable, but it was.

>> by the time it was done, it was back and too late. >> it was decadent and brilliant. >> movies were not really in vogue at the time. it had a couple that failed, so there wasn't a lot of excitement from the movie, and sometimes we took a little more time. we didn't -- we did this thing really on a shoestring in many, many ways. >> did you know it was going to be a hit? >> no, no, no. >> never. >> you didn't feel it? >> except there was something about working with fosse. he was truly creative. he wanted us to improvise, then go and see the rushes and see the results of our labor. >> as a theater man, he's so respected. >> he loved us. and every friday night, on set, and that's how he found out the girls could play the saw. a lot of stuff he found out, he put in the movie. >> he was always listening,

always watching. >> i have a little song, are you ready? come close. >> go ahead. ♪ ♪ for ladies >> all right! oh, my gosh. how much time do we have? one minute. say in one word, if you could describe this experience for you, what it feels like 40 years later, what are you feeling? >> absolutely grateful. >> yeah, that's a great word. >> proud. >> grateful, proud. >> i would say grateful, just very grateful. >> privileged to be associated with these wonderful people and this great film. >> you're british, so you're allowed to have that many words. >> i think this is going to reach a whole another audience.

>> they haven't seen decadence until they've seen "cabaret." >> it's brilliant. i wish fosse was around to see it. he's watching from somewhere. i'm not sure where. >> he took chances. i mean, we would all look at each other and go, really? >> during the filming. >> we have to run, because michael bolton gets really touchy when he's not allowed to sing. forgive us. >> michael bolton! >> special song in just a moment and he has a little guest with him. [ female announcer ] born from the naturally sweet monk fruit, something this delicious could only come from nature. now from the maker of splenda sweeteners, discover nectresse. the only 100% natural, no-calorie sweetener made from the goodness of fruit. the rich, sweet taste of sugar. nothing artificial. ♪ it's all that sweet ever needs to be.

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newest pays tribute to motown classics. >> "ain't no mountain high enough," michael's here with a very special guest, grammy-winning melanie fiona to sing "nothing like the real thing." take it away, you guys. ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing ♪ ♪ i got your picture hanging on the wall ♪ ♪ it can't see or come to me when i call your name ♪ ♪ i realize it's just a picture in a frame ♪ ♪ i read your letters when

you're not near ♪ ♪ but they don't move me ♪ they don't groove me like when i hear ♪ ♪ your sweet voice whispering in my ear ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing ♪ ♪ i play the game, a fantasy ♪ i pretend i'm not in reality ♪ i need the shelter of your arms to comfort me ♪ ♪ no other sound is quite the same as your name ♪ ♪ no touch can do half as much to make me feel better ♪ ♪ so let's stay together ♪ i got some memories to look back on, but they don't help me when you're gone ♪ ♪ i'm well aware nothing can take the place of your being

there ♪ ♪ so let me get the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ so glad we got the real thing ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing ♪ >> that was awesome! awesome! >> two lucky contestants. >> but first, this is "today" on nbc. ♪

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always two lucky fans. it's time for get your game on, where two lucky fans from the plaza get to have fun with us. >> let's find out who the contestants are and what they are going to be playing. hi, sara. >> come on, sal. >> today we're playing acting out, which is charades. you get 30 seconds. close your eyes, glance at the screen, see what they are acting out. >> what things are they? >> popular tv shows or movies. kathie lee is going to go first. close your eyes. evette, you're going to look at the television right now, see that? kathie lee, close your eyes for a second. open up. time on the clock, 30 seconds. go. ♪ >> model.

>> and you can use your words. you can speak. she can speak, talk. >> not a woman. not a woman. >> you can do impressions. >> not a woman. >> men? two and a half men? madmen? >> do we -- come right over here. >> learning as we go along. >> close your eyes. sal, see that? >> i can see it. i can see it. >> come on, sal! >> 30 seconds on the clock, go. >> not a woman. >> it's a man. >> very good. a guy with the funny hair, comes in all crazy. >> funny hair, al sharpton. what else? what else? he's a comedian. comedian. >> don king?

>> had his own show. no, no, no. >> had a lot of hair, own show. >> ten years. very famous guy. jay leno? >> score is even so far. >> what's the answer? >> can you tell us? >> it was "seinfeld." >> what hair? >> there was a guy, hair. >> it's a tie, that was a wash. >> they get a present because it was so bad. >> nobody gets it. nobody gets it. >> come back and see us tomorrow. we have a lot coming up tomorrow. ed cherene is going to perform for us, ambush makeover. >> it's going to be fun. have a great day, everybody. >> that was awful, awful. you're on timeout leo!

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